A teenager faces a disorderly conduct charge after police in the far western suburb of Geneva said they found the youth walking in a residential area carrying what was what initially believed to be an assault rifle. The weapon turned out to be an Airsoft pellet rifle, authorities learned after the youth was taken into custody. They had received a report shortly before noon of someone wearing camouflage and holding what appeared to be an AK-47 rifle near 1st Street...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 20-year-old man has been arrested in Los Angeles after writing on Twitter that he would shoot a random pedestrian if people retweeted his message 100 times on the social media website, police said on Friday. Dakkari Dijon McAnuff posted a photo on his Twitter account earlier this week of a rifle resting on what appeared to be an upper floor balcony railing, pointed down at a darkened street, police said. McAnuff posted, "100...

A teenager faces a disorderly conduct charge after police in Geneva said they found the youth walking in a residential area and carrying what was initially believed to be an assault rifle. The weapon was an Airsoft pellet rifle, authorities said after the teen was taken into custody. Police had received a report shortly before noon Tuesday of someone in the area wearing camouflage and toting what appeared to be an AK-47 rifle near First and...

A teenager faces a disorderly conduct charge after police in Geneva said they found the youth walking in a residential area and carrying what was initially believed to be an assault rifle. The weapon was an Airsoft pellet rifle, authorities said after the teen was taken into custody. Police had received a report shortly before noon Tuesday of someone in the area wearing camouflage and toting what appeared to be an AK-47 rifle near First and...

An Elgin man allegedly seen walking along a city street with an air rifle Tuesday night was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, Elgin police reported Wednesday. Timothy E. Levis, 31, of 618 Wellington Ave., was arrested about 9 p.m. after patrol officers said they saw him carrying a rifle in the 600 block of Wellington Avenue. Police had been called to the neighborhood on a report of a man with a gun. A pellet air rifle was recovered, police said. Levis is to appear in Kane...

A teenager faces a disorderly conduct charge after police in the far western suburb of Geneva said they found the youth walking in a residential area carrying what was what initially believed to be an assault rifle. The weapon turned out to be an Airsoft pellet rifle, authorities learned after the youth was taken into custody. They had received a report shortly before noon of someone wearing camouflage and holding what appeared to be an AK-47 rifle near 1st Street...

Vandals apparently used an air rifle to break the driver's side windows of at least 11 vehicles on Elgin's east side over the weekend, police said Monday. The vandalism is believed to have occurred late Saturday or early Sunday, Elgin Sgt. Glenn Theriault said. Vehicles were reported damaged in the 700 block of Brook Street, the 0-99 block of Hill Avenue, the 300 block of Illinois Avenue, the 600 block of Lavoie Avenue, the 200 block of Mulford Drive and the 600 block of...

A man accused of shooting a “high-velocity” air rifle at a Morton Grove mosque was ordered this morning to undergo an anger management evaluation and to stay away from members of the Islamic center if he is released from jail. David Conrad, 51, who lives next to the mosque, appeared at a hearing in the Skokie courthouse, where his bond was set at $45,000. He is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm and criminal damage to property, both felonies, and also with...

Keeping all the gold medals in the 10-meter air rifle competition in one country, let alone one family, is one mean feat, especially firing in a field of four dozen of the world's elite shooters. It was a golden dream too much for Ken Johnson to bring off as he failed Monday to match the performance of his wife, Nancy Johnson, who won the women's air rifle gold medal Saturday. As she watched from the stands, her medal in her backpack, tucked in a sock because she...

A Morton Grove resident accused of shooting at a mosque during Friday night's heavily attended Ramadan evening prayer service has complained for years about parking, lights and noise since the construction of the Muslim house of worship near his home, members of the mosque and neighbors said. In 2003 and 2004, David Conrad, now 51, attended village hearings to oppose the mosque and expansion of the Muslim Education Center, said Berdella Wehrmacher, 90, who said she...

A Morton Grove resident accused of shooting at a mosque during Friday night's heavily attended Ramadan evening prayer service has complained for years about parking, lights and noise since the construction of the Muslim house of worship near his home, members of the mosque and neighbors said. In 2003 and 2004, David Conrad, now 51, attended village hearings to oppose the mosque and expansion of the Muslim Education Center, said Berdella Wehrmacher, 90, who said she...

A 51-year-old man was charged with shooting at a mosque he lives near in north suburban Morton Grove, according to authorities. Police confiscated a "high-velocity air rifle" from the home of David Conrad, who lives just east of the mosque. He was charged with three counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm and one count of criminal damage to property, all felonies. He's scheduled for a bond hearing on Monday. Members of the Morton Grove mosque said...

A sharpshooter under intense pressure to become China's first gold medalist of the Beijing Games fell short Saturday morning, failing to medal and stunning a home crowd in one of the earliest finals of the Olympics. The burden of heavy expectations on 26-year-old Du Li in the women's 10-meter air rifle owed to nothing more than the Olympic schedule, which had placed her relatively obscure event on the first morning of competition. After placing fifth, Du said, "I wasn't fully...

Like a lot of homeowners, Larry Tomko has grown weary of geese. He's tired of scraping poop from his driveway with a snow shovel. He's fed up with boorish geese gobbling millet he leaves for chickadees. He feels overrun when dozens of the feathery transients loll in the pond a few steps from his yard. When his frustration brims, Tomko has run out his front door waving his arms and shouting at the geese. Sometimes he launches bottle rockets at them. About 10 years ago, he started...

LONDON - It took a moment to get the baby to stop kicking. It took a few deep breaths and a few calming words. Telling her unborn daughter to settle down, Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi quietly added: "Mommy's going to shoot here. " Then she shouldered her weapon and fired away. The 29-year-old Malaysian woman finished well down the list at Saturday's 10-meter air rifle event, but attracted some attention for competing while eight months pregnant. Though the record books contain no such...

As a youngster, Frederic Gaynor was the rosy-cheeked boy in rolled-up jeans cradling the popular Daisy air rifle. His all-American image in advertisements on the back covers of Boys' Life magazine, comic books and other publications helped make the rifle a staple on the Christmas lists of countless Baby Boomers in the 1950s. Mr. Gaynor, who became a Foreign Service officer, died of cancer Sunday at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 73 and a former resident of suburban...